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Caption: when you want the government to dictate that everyone live in cookie-cutter houses with cookie-cutter lawns and drive cookie-cutter cars

Image below: an image from the miniseries "Chernobyl" of a Soviet officer shaking hands with several people dressed up in protective suits, saying, "I serve the Soviet Union"

Note that this meme is meant to make fun of NIMBYs who spread the conspiracy theories about 15-minute cities being some evil communist plot to take away their freedom

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If my taxes raise, that’s ok because I can choose to ditch my car

What about the ones who didn't want their taxes to be raised? Taxation is involuntary servitude, and no end can justify robbery.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don't like taxes, move out to the woods. Balking on taxes when you use the things they provide is no better.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Examples like the Free Republic of Liberland were victims of the still existing institutional coercion.

Agorism is the way to abolish the apparatus of compulsion and coercion, and it's a long-haul goal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

OP asked for arguments that could help convince normal Americans